Tag: superhero
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Can’t Think Of A Thursday Feature
I’m trying to come up with a feature for each day, to help me get back on track with daily posting, but I can’t come up with a damn thing to go with, say, Wednesday Words of Wisdom or Tunesday or Memeday. I keep getting stuck on the Norse thing…you know, Wednesday derived from Odin’s…
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The DOOM PATROL
Tell me that’s not the coolest name ever for a team of weirdo superheroes! I dare you. I didn’t read comics a lot when I was a kid–because I spent all my time with my nose in books I wasn’t clever enough to realize were way too mature for my age–but I loved THE DOOM…
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On Dan Snyder, The Redskins, Free Speech and Flag Desecration
Wow! That’s a lot for one little article, eh? A few weeks ago, I posted on my support of the effort to encourage Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL football team, to change it’s name. A similar post planted elsewhere on the web stirred up a dialogue with a fellow I know from…
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An Open Letter To Dan Snyder & The Redskins: Time To Rebrand
Not so many years ago, the NCAA forced my Alma Mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–located in the town of Indiana, PA–to abandon it’s historic nickname, mascot, and iconography as “The IUP Indians.” A lot of folks were resentful at the external pressure, a lot more were like me and just thought it was a big…
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